Lovely start to the Liquid Gold conference in Warsaw with a keynote from David Mattingly and a gift of extra virgin olive oil from the Musej Uja in Škrip, Croatia 😍

Looking forward to it!

For anyone interested in the late antique intersection of religious institutions and economic activity, have a look at our CfP! Julia Koch and I will host a session in May 2026 in Aarhus at RAC/TRAC (Roman Archaeology Conference / Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference). Abstracts due 10 Oct.

Interested in orthodoxy, heresy and property? We are organising @imc-leeds.bsky.social sessions on these very topics for the #IMC2026! Have a look at our CfP and come and join us! Do get in touch and please share widely!

A beautiful tribute to a wonderful person. We will miss Ruth Keshishian so much.

Anyone who has ever worked in the archaeology, history, art & culture of Cyprus will know what an institution the Moufflon bookshop is. And we all know what an incredible loss it is to Cyprus with the passing of Ruth Keshishian today. Ruth will be missed by many. cyprus-mail.com/2025/08/07/r...

Can we start all academic events with a string quartet? (celebrating the reopening of the Zypern Institut / Cyprus Institute at the University of Münster)

Off to Mainz and @leizarchaeology.bsky.social for an exciting conference on Byzantine Early Medieval #Anatolia 600-900 CE presenting a paper entitled: "Towards an Archaeology of Crisis: #Amorium and the Anatolian Plateau between the 7th and 9th Century"

Thank you!!

Congratulations to Catherine Keane, whose book 'More than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus' has been shortlisted for the #EAA2025 book prize by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social We’ve got our fingers and toes crossed for you, @ckeane.bsky.social! brill.com/display/title/70278

The EAA is pleased to share the results of the first round of evaluations for the EAA Book Prize 2025. The Book Prize committee has shortlisted six publications. You can find information about the shortlisted authors and titles here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Awards/B... #EAA2025

Very excited to head to Birmingham for the Byzantine spring symposium!

"By the late 4th c., bishops were already being referred to as innkeepers, stewards, accountants, and tax-collectors"

Detail from one of the mosaics at Agia Kyriaki Chrysopolitissa at Kato Paphos in Cyprus #mosaicmonday 🏺

Nice to see that the 70th anniversary issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies is out! & looking forward to the future directions of BICS.

hello bluesky! i'm a late antique/Byzantine archaeologist currently based in Germany, with a focus on topics like the economic activity of the church, as well as resilience, industrial activity, and water infrastructure, particularly in the eastern Mediterranean. glad to see how bsky goes :)